Why I built WishPoster without sign-ups

Almost every tool online begins the relationship by asking for something: your email, your name, a password, an ability to associate your Google account, a confirmation click. None of that's needed for an online wishlist creator tool. Not WishPoster anyway.

Friction kills good intentions

The moment between "I should make a wishlist" and actually having one is fragile. Every extra step - a signup form, an email verification, a "choose a plan" screen

• is a place where that intention quietly dies. That's how I feel, anyway, for a lot of the 'free' tools I wanted to use online. As soon as they ask me to provide an email, I just bolt.

With WishPoster, the path is: open the page, start typing, share the link. That's it.

Privacy as a default, not a setting

When there's no account, there's no password to leak, no profile to mine, no email to sell, no "we've updated our terms" email two years later. Your list lives at its link. Share it with the people you want.

I want to build a helpful tool, not be responsible for your personal information.

No cookie banner, no "subscribe" wall

You can land on WishPoster and just use it. There's no cookie banner to wave away and no newsletter you have to decline before you're allowed to read the page. No tracking cookies means nothing to consent to. No mailing list means nothing to pester you about. The page loads, you make your list, you leave. That's the entire relationship.

Why it's worth it

A wishlist should feel like a piece of paper you pulled out of your notebook and handed to someone, not an account to sign up for. I made something I would want to use myself. I hope it does the job for you - for me, that's worth the effort.